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Week 9 Coaches Poll released
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We have another shakeup in the top 10 following Wisconsin’s shocking upset to Illinois over the weekend.
With the exception of Missouri being upended by Vanderbilt, all the favorites in the nation’s best college football conference won over the weekend keeping the SEC at five ranked teams in the new Coaches Poll.
The Week 9 Coaches Poll was released on Sunday afternoon.
Here is an updated look at the Week 9 Coaches Poll:
#1 Alabama
#2 Clemson
#3 LSU
#4 Ohio State
#5 Oklahoma
#6 Penn State
#7 Notre Dame
#8 Florida
#9 Georgia
#10 Auburn
#11 Oregon
#12 Utah
#13 Wisconsin
#14 Baylor
#15 Texas
#16 Minnesota
#17 SMU
#18 Cincinnati
#19 Iowa
#20 Michigan
#21 Boise State
#22 Appalachian State
#23 Wake Forest
#24 Arizona State
#25 Memphis
Others receiving votes:
Iowa State 83; Virginia 61; San Diego State 45; Navy 24; Pittsburgh 18; Washington 16; Tulane 8; Texas A&M 8; Louisiana Tech 7; Central Florida 6; Temple 3; Virginia Tech 2; Utah State 1; UAB 1; Indiana 1.
Notre Dame ahead of Florida doesn’t make a lot of sense. UF’s loss was to the #3 team and they have beaten the #10 team. I can see ND above UGA even though they won the head to head. UGA’s loss is worse than ND’s loss.
It’s too easy for voters to wait until Jax… the winner there(depending upon “style points”) should make a big jump and at very least will jump ND then
I guess. Just looks so biased to have Notre Dame as the highest ranked one loss team.
I agree UF should be ranked ahead of ND…if UF beats UGA they should jump ND and i would even argue Clemson and OU. I am crazy though! I just think if you don’t play nobody then you should be forgotten about. Alabama has not played an elite team but they will. Clemson wont and OU wont. So UF should jump them if they keep winning
That Notre Dame ranking makes the entire poll look like a joke.
After 1-3 this poll stinks.
Ohio State ranked higher than Penn State and Oklahoma? Based on what?
Notre Dame and UGA the top ranked 1 loss teams in the country? Why? On one hand, at least UGA has a quality win … OVER THE SAME ND TEAM THEY ARE RANKED BEHIND. On the other, at least ND hasn’t lost to a team with a losing record. In any event, neither should be ranked over the group of UF, Auburn, Oregon and Oregon. UGA, ND and Utah all merit about the same ranking.
Which should be … behind 7-0 Baylor. There. I said it. (Wrote it.) So what? Until Baylor loses tell me why I am wrong. Baylor’s record isn’t as comically weak as Minnesota’s.
The rest of it is OK I guess. Except for 5-2 Pitt not being ranked.
I don’t think 1-3 makes a whole lotta sense either. Does Clemson really look better than LSU on the schedule or with the eye test? Same could be said, to a lesser degree, about Bama. Otherwise I pretty much agree with what you said.
Clemson always underwhelms during the regular season and turns it on during the playoff. Like 2016 when Watson had 17 INTs, the Tigers lost to Pitt and quite frankly should have lost to N.C. State but come playoffs they hammered Ohio State 31-0 and then had that 2 minute drill for the ages to beat Bama. As for Bama, they also looked mighty vulnerable in 2017 due to injuries and Jalen Hurts having the same sophomore slump that Trevor Lawrence is dealing with right now. And we all know how that year ended.
Clemson and Bama have proven championship coaches that have won 2 of the last 4 titles. If LSU, UF, Ohio State, UGA or anyone else wants to join that group they are going to have to go through those two. Anyone who wants this to change is going to have to beat one of those two in a game that matters, which outside of Auburn grabbing an occasional Iron Bowl hasn’t happened since Ohio State beat Bama in 2014.
I just don’t put as much stock into what happened in previous years. What happens when LSU and Clemson both have a loss? Still going to put in a Clemson team that loses to a bad ACC team above an LSU that has a loss to a top ten team because Clemson has won the Natty recently? Would not be fair at all.
So unaffiliated is basically making a case based on history, not letting this year stand on its own. Tebow challenged that nicely this week. Haloing history is specifically not what the rankings are designed to be based on. The reason for the subjective method are for the “informed” to make their judgement based on what they are seeing on the field.
Rankings change constantly and none of it really matters till the last CFB playoff ranking…
Yes. I go with history. Like LSU not beating Bama since 2011 and I will believe it when it actually happens history. Like Saban never losing to his former assistants history. Like Clemson turning it on in November history. Like UF not winning squat since Tebow history.
Till something else happens no reason to presume it will.
What you’re saying doesn’t make a lot of sense at all. How far back is history to you? Why are you talking about Tebow and UF when the current players were in grade school when that happened. You’re holding teams, players and coaches to completely different standards based on what school they attend. It should have to do a lot more with what product is on the field this year. Bama gets no passes based on it’s previous success just as Vandy doesn’t get the short end of the stick based on it’s history. Everyone gets a fresh start every year.
I agree with montana LSU fella
While I don’t really care about Auburn’s ranking, I fail to see how losing to a top 10 team on the road is worse than losing at home to an unranked team (looking at you georgia.) And as always, Notre Dame is a joke.
This.
No one is going to rank Auburn very high until Patrick Nix plays well against a good team in a true road game. Oregon was a neutral site game – and Nix was horrible in that game – and Texas A&M turned out to be not very good. At this point no one thinks that Auburn will do any better against LSU than UF did.
Still does not change the facts Bringthetrain made. He is correct. UGA lost to an unranked 2-3 team in Athens. They played so badly this weekend their own fans booed them. Auburn has played one of the toughest schedules this season. I wonder how many of the undefeated teams could have weathered such a schedule. Oregon is a top 10 team that would easily beat most of the SEC teams.
Most of what you just wrote is BS but that’s to be expected from the perennial football step child across the Chattahooche river.
Perhaps you should point out what you think is BS. It would make your comment more credible. Just a suggestion.
This is the coaches poll, everyone needs to chill.